After the story time is over, Ling Tian stayed with Sam there.
They drank in silence as the time passed and soon it was past midnight.
Due to the extreme efforts of Ling Tian, all the academies worked together to make the payment for all the students so that no additional chaos would be added to this mix. They stably worked together using their fourth graders and elders to make the payments for everyone properly.
Of course, they also agreed on one thing.
No one would ever touch the payments machine after the payments are all settled. They do not want to risk anyone eve accidentally knowing who their information mule is and they didn't want to trigger chaos along with that.
For that reason, the people who were selected to manage the payment process were all the people who destroyed their bird puppets and wrist bands.
The academies believed that they successfully severed the connection between the academy and themselves.